Show us your Vintage Automobile Paraphernalia

[leg17]

BUD VASE
About 1960-61 I picked an accessory bud vase from a REO, ca. 1916-1922 or so, found in an abandoned junk-yard. (Remember those days?) That vase has long been gone and I have been trying to find one like it, as well as I can remember it. No luck so far.
But I have picked up a couple of others in the search.
Anyone remember these things??

I found another one and also found a temporary display location.
Hanging below some age appropriate Kentucky license plates.
Need a better arrangement but this is today anyway.

 

[Modern Garage]

A discussion over on the "Lugzonian" thread prompted me to grab some photos of Avon cars (and cycles) to post here. First the motorcycle that started it and it's box to illustrate that 'what you see' isn't always 'what you get'.
If you saw that thread you might note that this doesn't contain the ubiquitous "Wild Country" aftershave but is labeled "Island Lime" whatever that is. I'm not brave enough to open any of them (on purpose) to find out.
Joe

 

[Modern Garage]

And continuing the vein of WYSIWYG (What You See ISN'T What You Get) here are photos of the Roadrunner trike and it's box. Back to 'Wild Country' with this one. Note the same motorcycle front end, just a color change.
Joe

 

[Modern Garage]

And one last photo for now of a shelf with a few different examples in and out of boxes. The Champion spark plug box and the Coleman lantern box both house Avon decanters also.
most of my Avons came from garage sales for $1-3 each but I've paid up to $10 for something particularly desireable - like the VW Microbus with a motorcycle on the bumper hitch that I just had to have.
I'll post more over time but I don't want to monopolize the thread.
Joe

 

[Private Lugnutz]

...like the VW Microbus with a motorcycle on the bumper hitch that I just had to have.

...and which we just need to see!

 

[Modern Garage]

Be sure to put on your tie-dye and the 5th Dimension LP.
I found one of these vans at a garage sale without the cap and when I looked it up to see what was missing I was hooked and paid real money for the complete one.
Joe

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Groovy, man.

 

[SRU1436]

Old Edelbrock Scorpion manifold sticker. I believe they made the manifolds in the 70s. My dad had one on motor in our V drive boat.

 

[Jerriffic]

50's grille accessory.

 

[MisterEd]

An automobile necessity.

 

[Ed in Virginia]

I guess this is more of a car salesman's paraphernalia, but it's pretty rare and interesting. It is a salesman's ruler to help promote the advantages of owning a Ford over the other brands. The whole smoother ride, more power, and more comfortable ride kind of stuff, the ruler/scale would be a handy tool to help illustrate the point ("Look at how much more legroom and more car, you can get if you were to buy a Ford..."). Later than the T, not sure about the A, but definitely the early V-8 era. Neither the Model T nor A was sold as a roomy car. I have seen them mentioned in some of the Ford Salesman's handbooks before, but I can't exactly remember which years. I don't think that they were giveaways; I think they were just "for dealer use" and I am certain not many survived.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Old Edelbrock Scorpion manifold sticker.

Cool.

50's grille accessory.

"...that new 'aero' look."

An automobile necessity.

Very cool. Woodrow Wilson. Francis Ouimet. Louis Armstrong. First Model T - and first Erector set.

...not sure about the A, but definitely the early V-8 era...[ ]...I don't think that they were giveaways; I think they were just "for dealer use" and I am certain not many survived.

Terrific accent piece for any Ford collection!

 

[gearhead1960]

Here’s one of a few ashtrays from Goodyear I have.

 

[four.cycle]

wow.... those "tire" ashtrays were all over every parts counter in town when I was a kid.

 

[driftpin]

Is that a Formica countertop under the ashtray? Very 1950's in the design.

About the Avon Microbus: "keep on truckin'!" Is that Zager and Evans I hear on the Blaupunkt Berlin radio?

 

[gearhead1960]

Is that a Formica countertop under the ashtray? Very 1950's in the design.

About the Avon Microbus: "keep on truckin'!" Is that Zager and Evans I hear on the Blaupunkt Berlin radio?

@driftpin. Yes it is. We had Lowes make us an 8' countertop as a desktop that I mounted in our office. The boomerang was an option for the formica in several different colors. It might very well still be available....

 

[Motorman55]

I always liked MotoMeters and the fancy radiator caps that went with them. And, of course, everybody likes exhaust whistles.

Fantastic collection!

 

[driftpin]

I always liked MotoMeters and the fancy radiator caps that went with them. And, of course, everybody likes exhaust whistles.

The Gilmore Car Museum in rural S.W. Michigan has what is probably the most extensive collection of radiator ornaments. Lalique offered them for many cars between WW I and WW II. https://rlalique.com/blog/?p=183

Antiques Roadshow | Field Trip: Gilmore Car Museum | Season 13 | Episode 13 | PBS

At the Gilmore Car Museum, Eric Silver talks antique car mascots with Mark L. Walberg.

www.pbs.org

 

[Tostal]

Here's an old pencil-type tire pressure gauge I found recently - it came from a (British) Rover car toolkit tray and has a small tool to remove valve cores which unscrews from the end. The scale covers the range 6 - 50 p.s.i. and every 1 lb. pressure is numbered i.e. unlike other gauges I've seen where each 5 lb is numbered with only lines to show the intermediate pressures. It's very similar to Schrader pencil gauges of the time but doesn't have a pocket spring clip.




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Edit: Here's a pic of the older Rover bonnet (hood) emblem, it depicts a Viking long-ship (the word rover means wanderer or seafarer).

 

[Farmer J.]

Here's an old pencil-type tire pressure gauge I found recently - it came from a (British) Rover car toolkit tray and has a small tool to remove valve cores which unscrews from the end. The scale covers the range 6 - 50 p.s.i. and every 1 lb. pressure is numbered i.e. unlike other gauges I've seen where each 5 lb is numbered with only lines to show the intermediate pressures. It's very similar to Schrader pencil gauges of the time but doesn't have a pocket spring clip.




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That's neat, not seen one like that before. I'm going to have to take a look at an old Rover gauge I found and see if the end unscrews.. It has the same Rover logo on the side. But will have to wait until morning otherwise Mrs Farmer J will wonder what the heck I am up to in the workshop at 4:30am!

 

[Tostal]

Here's an AA (Automobile Association, U.K.) car badge in excellent condition that I found recently (the 2nd pic is with the yellow backing plate removed) :-

T~

 

[Farmer J.]

Well, I do have a pressure gauge which has a valve tool inside it, which I never knew was there, and as far as I remember it was in a Rover tool kit.. but my memory apparently is unreliable beyond that as it's a Dunlop, not Rover branded. It has a pocket clip and does read in 1 PSI increments 6-50. Made in England to BS4613 part 1 1970 . Registered design no.329740 British Patent no. 724036

 

[d42jeep]

Here is an item that my wife found at a recent estate sale. I removed as much of the rust as I could. Judging by the phone number, he may not still be in business.
-Don

 

[pfaustus]

Can I shed a tear for the 1938 Cadillac lap blanket that went missing when we cleaned out my Dad's house a couple years ago? My grandfather got it chauffeuring back in the day. We used it growing up to make up for the inadequacies of air cooled VW's heating system. Like this:

 

[Old Radar]

Reminds me of the Shroud of Turin!!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Reminds me of the Shroud of Turin!!

Umm, that would be the Shroud of Touring!

 

[Lump]

I've got to get active on Garage Journal forums again. I'm just over committed and not able to keep up with all the things I want to do. Anyway, I found a pretty interesting antique mechanical jack at my fall Lucasville Trade Days event this past September. I thought maybe you guys might like to see it. Cost me $35 cash, and the seller would not budge. I just swallowed my pride, and gave the man his money. Works perfectly. Goes from roughly 10.5" to roughly 15.5", really not much travel. So I ASSUME it must have been a tool-kit jack, intended for a very specific vehicle. It's marked in several locations besides the "Pierce Arrow" name, including "Barrett" on the jack-handle socket, and "The Duff Mfg Co Pittsburgh Pa" and "1 Ton" and "No 09." Cool, huh?

 

[four.cycle]

^ extremely cool, and if I am correctly interpreting what I am seeing with a simple google search, not too common. great find!

 

[Oldtuleguy]

Not common at all!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Cool, huh?

Very. Nice find, Lump and good to "see" you.

 

[Nates Garage]

Hello,
Anyone ever see a battery trickle charger like this? Uses water and appears to be from the 20's by the France manufacturing company out of Cleveland OH.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Anyone ever see a battery trickle charger like this?

Not one that had the elements exposed in a translucent vessel! That's cool. It's the High School Chemistry Class version of the vintage trickle charger.

 

[Mintgrun]

"The Duff Mfg Co Pittsburgh Pa" and "1 Ton" and "No 09." Cool, huh?

That is cool.


I've got a similar Duff No. 088 automotive jack, but it has a movable foot on the front. (could be model 08S, or 089?)



This one's missing the cover plate, as well as a spring and the two little pins are snapped off at the cotter pin holes; so, it's currently inoperable.



There is quite a bit of information cast into the body. I am guessing 1916 may have been the manufacturing date, with a 1914 patent date, but I couldn't find information on the patent.



The Internet Archive has a couple of Duff catalogs from the 20s and 30s. Here's the page with this jack on it, taken from the 1923 catalog.

Duff Jacks : Catalogue No. 106 : Duff Manufacturing Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

96 p., illus., 22.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

Tom

 

[four.cycle]

patent 1093269 Apr 14 1914 Isaiah E. Hindman

(* I have taken the liberty of pulling screenshots of your specimen and forwarding them to datamp.org - bk *)

 

[Mintgrun]

Thank you, bk. That image is helpful for making a replacement spring. It's a wiggly little thing and a critical piece that makes the two teeth play nicely together in response to that lever. It'd be a fun little puzzle that'd involve a bit of trial and error to figure out. Probably more error than I've got time for.

 

[four.cycle]

No problem.. I'm a bit confused by the "Barrett" name on that unit. I always thought "Barrett" was a stand-alone operation. Apparently they were part of Duff? Guess I need to read up on it at VintageMachinery.org

Duff / Duff Mfg. Co., Pittsburgh, PA / automotive jack / patent 1093269 Apr 14 1914 Isaiah E. Hindman / http://vintagemachinery.org/mfgindex/detail.aspx?id=5234 / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum...ile-paraphernalia.434289/page-24#post-9820754 / https://www.garagejournal.com/forum...ile-paraphernalia.434289/page-24#post-9832002 /

 

[Smokeshow69]

Got this cool bardahl fender cover today. I’ll probably hang it up. For $3 no way was I leaving it behind. I can’t tell how old it is but the address on it doesn’t list a zip code so it’s got some age to it.

 

[driftpin]

I bought this little fella at least a dozen years ago at Daytona Beach during Bike Week. I suspect it's a 1950's item. I gave it to my oldest brother, he liked Donald Duck. Just before he died, he gifted it back to me. I keep it in my wife's Lalique cabinet with the other tchotchkes.



A quick search shows Sun Rubber made these, in the 1940's, possibly before.

Donald Duck and Pluto Toy Car (Sun Rubber Co., 1947). This version of the Donald Duck rubber car toy has a yellow-painted Pluto riding in the rumble seat, measuring approximately 6.5" x 2.5". Donald's head is missing some paint detail, but is firmly in place; the car itself has some paint cracking and wear, including a smell chip missing from the driver's rear wheel covering edge. Appears to be American version, but raised type under car is hard to make out. Canadian version listed in Hake's, in FN condition, with a value of $75; (blue) American version in FN = $175. From the Don Vernon Collection.

https://comics.ha.com/itm/memorabilia/disney/donald-duck-and-pluto-toy-car-sun-rubber-co-1947-/a/110011-11474.s

 

[four.cycle]

@Smokeshow69 -
"Bardahl" was a Seattle product. They had a huge neon sign that you could see from the freeway. Also sponsored the "Miss Bardahl" unlimited hydroplane (back when they ran piston engines.)
That would no doubt fetch a pretty penny to some rabid local collector. Great find!

 

[Smokeshow69]

@Smokeshow69 -
"Bardahl" was a Seattle product. They had a huge neon sign that you could see from the freeway. Also sponsored the "Miss Bardahl" unlimited hydroplane (back when they ran piston engines.)
That would no doubt fetch a pretty penny to some rabid local collector. Great find!

Well I am a bit south of Seattle but still Pacific Northwest. It has a cool aged look and I have seen lots of bardahl signs and cans but no fender covers. I may make a cheap frame and hang it on my ceiling